Multi Store Model Of Memory

Question 1

Who was the msm developed by

Answer 1

Atkinson and shiffrin, includes three separate unitary stores: sensory register, short term memory and long term memory

Question 2

What is the sensory register

Answer 2

Gathers information from our sense organs- eyes, nose, mouth, ears and touch, has a limited duration of a quarter second to three

Question 3

If we pay attention to sr what happens

Answer 3

It will pass to short term memory, forgetting occurs due to rapid decay if no attention is given to it

Question 4

Short term memory

Answer 4

has a limited capacity of 5-9 items and limited duration of 30 secs

Question 5

What allows information to be held in the stm

Answer 5

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 6

What transfers info from stm to ltm by processing the info semantically

Answer 6

Elaborate rehearsal. Forgetting occurs from stm due to displacement and decay

Question 7

Why do we forget ltm

Answer 7

Forgetting occurs due to interference ( proactive and retroactive) and retrieval failure

Question 8

Evaluation of msm

Answer 8

Clinical studies from patients with Korsakoff’s syndrome who have damage to the ltm but hardly any on stm. KF suffered brain damage, it had no effect of ltm but led to many stm tasks